Eagles: Matt Barkley challenges reporter to play catch after his arm strength criticized

Eagles quarterback Matt Barkley's arm strength, or lack thereof, has been a hot topic during the spring's OTAs and minicamp practices in recent weeks.

The second-year signal caller out of USC has been splitting third-team repetitions with G.J. Kinne and second-team repetitions with Mark Sanchez and has heard the criticism of his arm strength.

Barkley isn't too thrilled with his critics.

Barkley personally responded on a Reddit thread titled, “Barkley’s arm strength a concern” to say that his arm strength is no concern at all. Responding to Jimmy Kempski of Philly.com, who wrote that Barkley may “struggle to stay in the league” if he can’t improve the velocity on his throws, Barkley wrote on Reddit that it simply isn’t true.

“Easy there Jimmy, you don’t know a thing about that route, the defensive coverage, technique of the wide receiver, the route he was actually running, let alone my maximum velocity arm strength,” Barkley wrote. “We can play catch sometime if you want to figure out for yourself how hard I can throw it, just lemme know.”

Kempski has already accepted Barkley's challenge to play catch, but no date or time has been set.